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Keyboard i-rocks scissor-switch white keyboard Mouse mouse for life kengsington PSU antec_500w_green Case rosewill_future_gaming_case Hard Drives 7200 rpm barracuda seagate 2tb Internet Speed ~400kb/s down DSL Other Info I'm VERY interested in building my own rig flatscreens and running ubuntu and windows home premium or prof. I've tripled-booted (mac os rubbish, ubuntu great!, and windows solid). Designing hardware rig: this forum might be a good resource!
Some of these parts are to a rig that is in the process of being built!

Please elaborate on "I downloaded all drivers from scratch" - Windows 7 has its own very comprehensive driver database; what it doesn't find during the installation, it will download online as soon as it can.

Exactly what drivers did you download and how did you install them?

As for the 30-second delay issue, I once had a similar problem, particularly with new files or folders on my desktop.
I found out that this was happening because I had disabled the Application Experience service. It's now set to "manual" instead of "disabled" and that solved my issue.

30 second delay on having a "New folder" appear on desktop

Windows 7 using "wrong" desktop and folder paths after update.Windows 7 auto update in the middle of the night messed everything up. My desktop is empty, my documents and other folders are also empty.
However, if I navigate through MyComputer, I can still see the files where they should be. Windows is presenting me with a new and empty directory instead....

General Discussion

"Desktop" folder appearing on desktopRecently a folder called "desktop" keeps appearing on my desktop, If I click it it just links me to the explorer and every time I delete it it simply reappears.
Also the icon for the folder doesnt look like a normal folder, what on earth is going on here?
http://i.imgur.com/qH6Tfdq.jpg

General Discussion

2mins delay during boot after "loading windows files" before DesktopHi everyone,
I have had a search around for the issue I am having but I find it hard to explain.
I currently run windows of a crucial m400 SSD and it used to boot in less than a minute. More recently (and apparently overnight) boot time became several minutes.
I turned on verbose boot and it...

Performance & Maintenance

Hiding unused "removable storage" devices from "Computer" folderNot a major issue, of course, purely cosmetic, but still a minor annoyance none-the-less:
I have a number of card reader drives that I never use (haven't even removed that plastic cover tape from them to help keep the dust out) that show when viewing the "Computer" window that displays drives. ...

Customization

Changing delay on window "peek" (not desktop)It's great to be able to reduce delay for desktop peek and mouseovers on task bar preview etc (thanks for info on how to by the way!), but when I mouseover one of the task bar previews so that all windows except the one I'm on become transparent, it happens far too fast.
Does any one know how to...